Dams in Middle East

Geo-referenced point database on dams in Africa. This dataset is described extensively on the AQUASTAT website at https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/databases/dams. On this website, the dataset is also published in Excel to facilitate the publication of information on dams without geographical co-ordinates. It is accompanied by an explanatory document that provides specific information about the references used, and brief notes on the more complicated dams. The shapefile consists of the following information: a) GIS generated codes (FID); b) coordinates in decimal degrees (DDLONG, DDLAT); c) 'coordinates' broken down into eight codes (LATDIR with an N or an S for North or South, LATDEG, LATMIN and LATSEC for degrees, minutes and seconds latitude and LONGDIR with an W or E for West or East and LONGDEG, LONGMIN and LONGSEC for degrees minutes and seconds longitude); d) items described in details on the website, such as river basin and administrative unit; e) completion date; f) height; g)surface area; h) main purpose. This dataset served also as a basis for the Global reservoirs and dams (GRanD) database, which resulted in the article: Lehner, B., Reidy Liermann, C., Revenga, C., Vörösmarty, C., Fekete, B., Crouzet, P., Döll, P., Endejan, M., Frenken, K., Magome, J., Nilsson, C., Robertson, J., Rödel, R., Sindorf, N., Wisser, D. 2011. High resolution mapping of the world’s reservoirs and dams for sustainable river flow management. Published in the Journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. **Data creation:** 2007-03-01 **Supplemental Information:** For a wider distribution and to support other projects at FAO this map is also distributed in a DVD as part of a publication entitled: Jenness, J., Dooley, J., Aguilar-Manjarrez, J., Riva, C. African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic resource management. 2. Technical manual and workbook. CIFA Technical Paper. No. 33, Part 2. Rome, FAO. 2007. 308 p. **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) **Data lineage:** More information on this data on the AQUASTAT Website at https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/databases/dams **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Download - Database of dams in Africa (Excel file) Geo-referenced dam databases on AQUASTAT website

Geo-referenced point database on dams in Southern Eastern Asia. This dataset is described extensively on the AQUASTAT website at https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/databases/dams. On this website, the dataset is also published in Excel to facilitate the publication of information on dams without geographical co-ordinates. It is accompanied by an explanatory document that provides specific information about the references used, and brief notes on the more complicated dams. For shapefile description, please see the READ ME in the zip file. **Data publication:** 2013-06-24 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) **Data lineage:** More information on this data on the AQUASTAT Website at https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/databases/dams **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Download - Dams in the Southern Eastern Asia (ESRI shapefile) Geo-referenced dam databases on AQUASTAT website

Geo-referenced point database on dams in Central Asia. This dataset is described extensively on the AQUASTAT website at https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/databases/dams. On this website, the dataset is also published in Excel to facilitate the publication of information on dams without geographical co-ordinates. It is accompanied by an explanatory document that provides specific information about the references used, and brief notes on the more complicated dams. For shapefile description, please see the READ ME in the zip file. **Data publication:** 2013-06-24 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) **Data lineage:** More information on this data on the AQUASTAT Website at https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/databases/dams **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Download - Dams in Central Asia (ESRI shapefile) Geo-referenced dam databases on AQUASTAT website

This dataset divides the Near East in major hydrological basins and their sub-basins according to its hydrological characteristics. It was obtained by delineating drainage basin boundaries from hydrologically corrected elevation data (WWF HydroSHEDS and Hydro1K). The dataset consists of the following information:- numerical code and name of the major basin (MAJ_BAS and MAJ_NAME); - area of the major basin in square km (MAJ_AREA); - numerical code and name of the sub-basin (SUB_BAS and SUB_NAME); - area of the sub-basin in square km (SUB_AREA); - numerical code of the sub-basin towards which the sub-basin flows (TO_SUBBAS) (the codes -888 and -999 have been assigned respectively to internal sub-basins and to sub-basins draining into the sea) **Data creation:** 2021-12-15 **Supplemental Information:** This dataset is developed as part of a GIS-based information system on water resources for the Near East. It has been published in the framework of the AQUASTAT - programme of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Jippe Hoogeveen](mailto:Jippe.Hoogeveen@fao.org) **Data lineage:** The linework of the map was obtained by delineating drainage basin boundaries from hydrologically corrected elevation data with a resolution of 15 arc-seconds.The elevation dataset was part of a mapping product, HydroSHEDS, developed by the Conservation Science Program of World Wildlife Fund.Original input data had been obtained during NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). **Online resources:** Download - Hydrological basins in the Near East (ESRI shapefile) General information regarding the HydroSHEDS data product HydroSHEDS dataset download and technical information Rivers of the Near East

The rivers of the Middle East dataset is derived from the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) HydroSHEDS drainage direction layer and a stream network layer. The source of the drainage direction layer was the 15-second Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM). The raster stream network was determined by using the HydroSHEDS flow accumulation grid, with a threshold of about 1000 km² upstream area. The stream network dataset consists of the following information: the origin node of each arc in the network (FROM_NODE), the destination of each arc in the network (TO_NODE), the Strahler stream order of each arc in the network (STRAHLER), numerical code and name of the major basin that the arc falls within (MAJ_BAS and MAJ_NAME); - area of the major basin in square km that the arc falls within (MAJ_AREA); - numerical code and name of the sub-basin that the arc falls within (SUB_BAS and SUB_NAME); - area of the sub-basin in square km that the arc falls within (SUB_AREA); - numerical code of the sub-basin towards which the sub-basin flows that the arc falls within (TO_SUBBAS) (the codes -888 and -999 have been assigned respectively to internal sub-basins and to sub-basins draining into the sea). The attributes table now includes a field named "Regime" with tentative classification of perennial ("P") and intermittent ("I") streams. **Data revision:** 2014-03-05 **Supplemental Information:** This dataset is developed as part of a GIS-based information system on water resources for the Middle East. It has been published in the framework of the AQUASTAT - programme of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. **Contact points:** Resource Contact: [Jippe Hoogeveen](mailto:Jippe.Hoogeveen@fao,org) Resource Contact: [Livia Peiser](mailto:Livia.Peiser@fao.org) Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) **Data lineage:** The linework of the map was obtained by converting the stream network to a feature dataset with the Hydrology toolset in ESRI ArcGIS.The Flow Direction and Stream Order grids were derived from hydrologically corrected elevation data with a resolution of 15 arc-seconds.The elevation dataset was part of a mapping product, HydroSHEDS, developed by the Conservation Science Program of World Wildlife Fund.Original input data had been obtained during NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Download - Rivers of the Near East (ESRI shapefile) Technical information on the data source More updated information on HydroSHEDS 2025

SDG 6 Foundation Basin Units (SDG6-FBU). The SDG6-FBU is a geo-spatial data layer with spatial information derived from HydroBASIN level 12 (https://www.hydrosheds.org/products/hydrobasins). Each of these small hydrological units (approximately 1 million basins) is named according to the ‘SDG 6 Major Basin’ and ‘SDG 6 Sub-Basin’ classification, with the sub-basins nested within the major basins. **Data publication:** 2025-05-02 **Supplemental Information:** The dataset is included as part of Geo-Spatial Information collected and published in the framework of the AQUASTAT - programme of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. https://www.fao.org/aquastat/ **Citation:** Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 (IMI-SDG 6), SDG6 Basin Maps, Foundation Basin Units, Latest update: 31/07/2024. Accessed (dd-mm/yy) from: https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/edit/edc5d019-e185-4104-8c13-3261c96e4c0a **Contact points:** Resource Contact: [Jippe Hoogeveen](mailto:jippe.hoogeveen@fao.org) Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) **Data lineage:** SDG 6 Foundation Basin Units (SDG6-FBU). The SDG6-FBU is a geo-spatial data layer with spatial information derived from HydroBASIN level 12 (https://www.hydrosheds.org/products/hydrobasins). Each of these small hydrological units (approximately 1 million basins) maintains attribute information from the following 4 source layers: • FAO (major basins and sub-basins) • TWAP (river basins component) • GRDC (river basins) • WMO (major basins and sub-basins), which allows for backward compatibility to be maintained to each source layer. In addition, each hydrological unit will be named according to the new ‘SDG 6 Major Basin’ and ‘SDG 6 Sub-Basin’ classification, with the sub-basins nested within the major basins. These new SDG 6 classifications will draw initially upon the source layers and then over time be revised based on country information. All improvements of the SDG 6 Basin Map will be conducted in this layer. This product "SDG 6 Foundation Basin Units (SDG6-FBU)" incorporates data from the HydroSHEDS database (https://www.hydrosheds.org/) which is © World Wildlife Fund, Inc. (2006-2013) and has been used herein under license. WWF has not evaluated the data and therefore gives no warranty regarding its accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability for any particular purpose. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Download the data from Google Cloud Storage SDG6_BasinMaps_Final_Report_v1 SDG6_BasinMaps_Final_Report_v1_Appendices